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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Priest: Ukrainian Catholics Flee Crimea to Escape Threats of Arrest

Father
Milchakovskyi said that he and his family and at least two-thirds of
his parishioners have left for Ukrainian-controlled territory on the
advice of Archbishop Shevchuk (pictured above) (CNS)

Members of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
are fleeing Crimea to escape threats of arrest and property seizures, a
priest has said.

“The situation remains very serious, and we don’t know what will
happen — the new government here is portraying us all as nationalists
and extremists,” said Father Mykhailo Milchakovskyi, a parish rector and
military chaplain from Kerch, Crimea, who was speaking to the Catholic
News Service just four days after Russia finalised the region’s
annexation.

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